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- From: zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory ... [torturing cats]
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 07:00:41 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- Message-ID: <1ecpmpINN2vp@news.aero.org>
- References: <1992Nov17.060654.15779@panix.com> <32779@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com>
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- Summary: where are these cats, physically?
- Keywords: forced childbirth
-
- In article <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >... not everyone looks at things that way. From the pro-life
- >point of view, you might as well say that a dispute between those who
- >do and those who don't want to forbid torturing cats to death for fun
- >depends on whether the owner or some interfering do-gooder is best
- >qualified to decide how to handle the situation in which cat owners
- >find themselves.
-
- I've been reading way too much about torturing cats; it looks
- an awful lot like an appeal to emotion (a tactic usually reserved
- for those who have no substantive arguments to offer). How about
- changing it to torturing cockroaches? Or, better yet, talking
- about abortion? What is the representation here? That the
- pregnant woman is the cat-torturer? Does this mean that the
- cat being tortured is *inside someone's body*? I certainly have
- no objections to someone doing anything necessary to remove a
- cat from their internals.
- Dave Suess zeus@aerospace.aero.org
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